Abstract
By establishing an opposition between two ways of studying e-poetry: the patrimonial stance, which historicizes and canonizes a corpus and the cultural stance, which discusses e-poetry in its social context, the article makes a plea for a broad, cultural approach to electronic reading and writing. This approach defines e-poetry in terms of performance, placing a strong emphasis on the mediated and often networked environment in which e-poetry creation and reception take place. The close reading of two examples by Pierre Alferi and Eric Sadin, two prominent authors of electronic literature in France, further illustrates the idea of writing and reading as performance as well as the necessity to study e-poetry within the broader landscape of different media and publication forms.
Recommended Citation
Baetens, Jan and Van Looy, Jan
(2008)
"E-poetry: between image and performance -- A cultural analysis,"
The Journal of e-Media Studies: Vol. 1:
Iss.
1, Article 3.
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.1349/PS1.1938-6060.A.288
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.dartmouth.edu/joems/vol1/iss1/3